30-Day Timelapse at Sea [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrCI9eSJGQ

by rafaelc • 9 years ago

477 42 9 years ago

About halfway through the video the caption says that he works a "4-8 shift", meaning s/he works from 4-8am and 4-8pm (according to the video). Why is it done this way?

pouetpouet• 9 years ago

It's a 4 hour watch followed by 8 hours of rest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_system#Merchant_ships

tcopeland2• 9 years ago

That an interesting watch rotation to stand. At first I dreaded that one because you get less sleep. But the upside is that 0400-0800 is a quiet time aboard a ship, and 1600-2000 things are usually winding down as well.

And if you're standing that watch that means you're not standing port and starboard (i.e. 4 hours on 4 hours off) so, could be worse!

bgun• 9 years ago

Also my favorite watch schedule because you get to see both sunrise and sunset.

giarc• 9 years ago

What are your main tasks during these watch shifts?

mNemoN• 9 years ago

This is truly amazing!

dharma1• 9 years ago

So beautiful I want to cry

TeMPOraL5• 9 years ago

This, and the recent timelapse video of Earth's atmosphere from GOES-16[0], made me realize just how a dynamic phenomenon clouds are. They look so much different at this timescale than when watching them real-time.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/12/us/hurricane-...

j_s• 9 years ago

how a dynamic phenomenon butts are

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus... strikes again?

spiderfarmer• 9 years ago

Maybe he has a butt to cloud extension as well so he won't notice.

TeMPOraL5• 9 years ago

Fixed, thanks.

It was unintended... this time.

mrow84• 9 years ago

There is some very nice imagery in the "Loop of the Day" here [0]. It used to be from Himawari-8, but returning to it to post it here, I see they are now primarily showing data from GOES-16.

von Karmann vortices (e.g. [1]) are particularly nice.

[0] http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop_of_the_d...

[1] http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop.asp?data...

TeMPOraL5• 9 years ago

This is a thing of beauty! Thanks for linking it!

mstade• 9 years ago

One of my favorite features of he Apple TV is the screensaver of flyovers in various cities across the globe. I’ll put in some ambient music and eventually the screen saver kicks in and I have a lovely ambient audio/visual experience for when I work. I’d love I if I could make my own playlist, or add to the default one, to add videos like this one. It’s truly mezmerizing to watch when taking a ten minute stretcher.

cr1895• 9 years ago

Try searching for "Nederland van boven"

It's low altitude flyover video of various things in the Netherlands, focusing on towns, infrastructure, etc. Really nice to watch.

awiesenhofer• 9 years ago

I second that recommendation! Various european broadcasters shared that concept and produced a whole series that covers a lot of european countries. So far i watched them about germany ("Deutschland von oben"), france, italy and great britain.

some links: https://britainfromabove.org.uk/ https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/deutschland-von-obe... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uH3aXvuxvc

KGIII• 9 years ago

It took me a minute to find it again. Warning, this has potential to make time disappear!

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCiDnCQ6JCtzcZ3FNgFGcj3g

That is the channel for The World From Above. They are HD documentaries, a bit shorter than I prefer, done entirely from the air. They fly over a bunch of places, taking very nice footage, and narrate what you're seeing. You can just turn the volume down and provide your own soundtrack, but I like the narration.

There is another, similar, series that was made by a travel agent company, but I can't seem to find it. If you watch enough of then, YouTube may put it into the recommended list. Both of them are very good, well made, and terrible time sinks. You have been warned.

mattparlane• 9 years ago

There's also Aerial America by the Smithsonian Channel. They're one hour narrated documentaries with exclusively aerial footage. One per state (they combined the Dakotas). I'm not even American and I bought the whole set on bluray.

sjs382• 9 years ago

Not the same, but I'll sometimes put one of these on in the background for a similar experience:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsNKqAkKkCKUdnZTMty2B...

blubb-fish• 9 years ago

great - but the logo and the text ruins part of the experience for me.

gtsteve• 9 years ago

This seems like the sort of video that'd get reposted a lot, I think the author just wants recognition for their work.

twic• 9 years ago

This makes me even more anguished that The Modern Ocean is still stuck in development hell and/or mythical:

http://www.indiewire.com/2015/08/shane-carruth-talks-his-nex...

thomasdd• 9 years ago

The "weather", clouds and "stars"(night sky). Are two things I see most in this cool photo/video compilation... great to watch. The night sky on sea is stunning, becaus of reduced or no "light pollution". Good idea to actually use photos!

ycombinete• 9 years ago

What are you using the inverted commas ("") for in this comment?

tapanjk• 9 years ago

Two things that stood out for me were: the view of the starry night sky (which I have not seen in decades, since moving to a metropolitan area); and the amount of traffic at sea (barring some stretches where they seem to have no company).

ChuckMcM• 9 years ago

One of the reasons I go camping is so that I can visit the stars. Some of the first questions that got me going in science was the idea that I could actually look up and see the stars around which other worlds rotated, and wondered if there was some alien kid looking back at me. Later when I realized the light was thousands if not millions of years "old" I thought, "Here I am looking at you alien kid, a million years from now." We bought an easy to transport Meade 90mm telescope to take with us camping.

dwaltrip• 9 years ago

To anyone who is interested, I highly recommend a pair of cheap 7x50 binoculars (easily $50 or less) for beginner stargazing.

The wider field of view, ease of use, and immersion with both eyes makes it really great for starting out, as compared to a telescope. There are also some great apps out there to help you know what you are looking at.

You may even see some pretty cool stuff from your backyard. Two of my favorites are the Andromeda Galaxy and the Pleiades.

czep• 9 years ago

It also highlights how close the clouds are to the surface of the Earth. In everyday perception, at least to me, the clouds always seem very distant and cleanly separated from the surface. Here you can see they are actually very nearly connected to the surface, all part of one ecosystem against the backdrop of the distant universe.

Truly stunning.

crispinb• 9 years ago

the view of the starry night sky (which I have not seen in decades, since moving to a metropolitan area)

One reason why I will never live in a city again.

2bluesc• 9 years ago

I went out of my way to turn off h264ify on YouTube to watch the video in full 4k resolution with VP9 encoding. Totally worth it.

Now if only the logo was less intense...

mastazi• 9 years ago

I loved the sections with intense lightning storms. Those are also visible in many ISS time lapse videos such as this one: https://vimeo.com/61487989

callesgg• 9 years ago

I found it interesting how the sky seamed like a flat roof rather than a great many stars at different distance.

wiz21c• 9 years ago

A bit off topic, but quite mesmerizing too :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNJYpyxBfWc

edit: I also like the contrast between the subjects ocean's stillness and full on demonstration of forces

lttlrck• 9 years ago

The lightning must be quite intense for a time lapse to capture such density of strikes - he did mention that but even so! Awesome.

MozillaUser• 9 years ago

Marine Engineer here

Sea life is shit life !

Treblemaker• 9 years ago

What I appreciate most about this is that he just set up the camera and let the scene unfold without cutting away every two seconds, or worse, every just-long-enough-so-i'm-relaxing-and-starting-to-get-immersed-in-it-when-you're-suddenly-taking-it-away-from-me-I-hate-you-now seconds. I wish there were more videos like this one.

Another one I found recently is this drone video of Mt. Jefferson in Oregon during the eclipse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8odR-KwOSt0

srigi• 9 years ago

It really makes me think how much are we dependant on network of such cargo ships.

nkjoep• 9 years ago

Nice repost @OP! ;)

30-Day Timelapse at Sea [video]

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